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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER First American Ambulance Train in France I out to the barn, saddled Len Hen- he motored with his brood to Presleys black horse, Mose, and set off cott As he pulled up in front of down the avenue Pa Burdan had the county jail he heard a siren behad cleared the length of the home hind him warning him to pull ahead ranch at its northern boundary. He out of the space reserved for cantered along, knowing his head ficial parking. He did so, got out and saw Sheriff Wade alight from would not show over the tall luxuriant growth and came out into rolling his car and enter the jail office precountry, with sparse stunted growth ceded by his sons, Joel and Rube! and grassy open spaces between, Pedro passed in after them and two miles below the scene of his stood back while the sheriff mornings adventure. He was fully "booked his sons. When the day three hundred yards from the river jailer said to them: "Follow me, so he boys, now and safe from pistol-fire- , and took them upstairs to pulled up and through the telescopic the cell block, Pedro crossed to the counter find looked at the register. sight searched the terrain. Presently he saw that which he had sought Joel and Rube were booked as material witnesses! three pack mules; from the curiCHAPTER XV ous manner in which they moved Whats on your mind, Pedro? about as they grazed he knew they Hank Wade asked kindly. Along the north bank stretched the home ranch with its tall jungle grow- were hobbled. This Nothing, Senor Sheriff. He rode down on them, roped morning I thought I did some small ing to the edge of the wash, so Pedro realized none of Breezys brothers, them, tied them together by their business with your sons on the Wagsearching for him, would ride up halters, removed their hobbles and on Wheel but I see now it was two that bank. He reasoned one would led them back to the Wagon Wheel other fellows. Why do you incarcerHe rejoiced in this ate your sons as material witride up the wash and the other along headquarters. the low hillside on the south where addition to Dona Maria's assets, for nesses? the barren soil produced a stunted the halters were strong and new and Got to have an excuse for putthe mules young, fat and sound. He tin em in and scattered growth. jail. After that story About a quarter of nine he heard yearned to search along the river, about Miss Sutherland an Breezy If find the rustlers camp and bum broke in the paper public feelin a shout downriver: Breez-z-z-y- ! their blankets and destroy their food, about Joel an Rube commenced to you hear me, fire three shots!" but decided not to risk that adven- simmer. Two juries couldnt convict This is a dirty low Mexican ture. He knew that unseen eyes em of rustlin but your Dona Maria trick, Pedro murmured and fired watched him from afar, that the three shots! He slid in three fresh owners of those eyes would realize did, so in order to discourage a lynchin bee at the Flyin W, I run He heard cartridges and waited had been set afoot; that if they out an brought the boys in for more shouting down the river and an they answering hail from the hillside; he Pedro nodded approval of that looked up and saw two horsemen rid: measure. This morning, he said, Ing down to join the third man in three men came up the wash of with was the wash. Pedro pleased the Santa Maria looking for Breezy. his strategy and reminded himself The hell you say! f the ancient Spanish proverb that Well, when they found Breezy it is better to be the head of a mouse who should be holding a wake over than the tail of a lion. him but Pedro Miguel Jose Ramon A horseman came into view Contreras y Ortiz. I killed one a around the bend, pulled up, turned stranger to me and the other two and made a signal to those followare afoot on the Wagon Wheel range ing him. Pedro interpreted it to be armed only with I did a warning for them to remain in the not recognize them. They will head rear until he had ridden forward and down-rive- r or north to the Flying W The made closer . investigation. and I need help to round them up. search was a cautious one, for the Cant give you any, son. I been leader came on at a walk, glancing scandalized plenty but while Im he saw to left and right and Pedro sheriff o Yavapai County I dont was not a Wade, for the Wades were aim to permit Yavapai County to all dark and this man was very scandalize itself by pullin off a blond. So the Wades were part of I need all my deputies lynchin. a syndicate, it seemed. here. Pedro sighed, said goodby and Suddenly the rider descried drove with his family to see a WestBreezys body. He pulled up, looked ern motion picture! carefully around and particularly then dismounted and led his horse over to the body, for until Mary, accompanied by her nurse he should look close he would not and Margaret Maxwell, returned to identificato make positive be able the Wagon Wheel ranch with but one tion. As he stooped over the body stop en route and that was on top of Pedro let him have it and a second the hill above the little valley shot was not necessary. stretching down to the Santa Maria and in which her headquarters The rustlers horse jumped at the nestled. She gazed upon the scene sound of the shot but did not run below with new interest now; for an and Pedro noticed that on the saddle arena of tragedy it seemed so peacethere was a rifle scabbard with the ful, in the soft late afternoon light butt of a rifle sticking out. He ran its garishness was gone. She noted to the horse, pulled this rifle out and the green of Pa Burdans dream of saw that it was an Austrian Mann-lichriches via the grapefruit route, the carbine with the cut-of- f turned over. He turned it back and drew He pulled up, looked carefully graceful outline of the sterile pecan the bolt a little, disclosing a car- around, then dismounted and led his trees, the verdant little horse pasture with the caballado grazing or tridge in the breech and the maga- horse over to the body. drowsing; and lor the first time zine filled, pressed the bolt home again, stepped away from the horse were not thoroughly familiar with she agreed with Ma Burdan that the and shouted: Hello, Breezy! That, the location of springs and tanks on Wagon Wheel was beautiful and not with a savage beauty, either. And n he knew, would bring Joel and that vast, range they Reuben Wade forward. It did. They might die of thirst on their sorry she was sensible of a quiet satiscame around the bend at a fast trot, journey to safety, for they had no faction with it now because she knew saw Pedro as he stepped out from canteens. They must walk twenty it could not be wrested from her. the bushes and whirled their horses miles due north to reach the Flying A week ago she had not cared 'whethto retreat W headquarters, or continue down er it was or not; now she knew she would feel very badly to lose it. To Pedros way of thinking things the Santa Maria to its junction with Margaret, watching her narrowly, well-lai- d to the thence the River Williams and a had gone badly with plan murmured: Seeing things, Mary? and, since it was no part of his Colorado River, in order to be cerYes, Margaret. Things that of Nature's for tain while a to water, Carlotta make widow, strategy arent there. But they will be. he decided to break off the action. fount, the barrel cactus, has often She had already told Margaret of saved thirsty men from death, there So he retreated up the wash, pausdecision to keep the property her on Wheel were the wide areas to a Wagon put pistol bullet ing long enough and it but had disclosed none operate through the head of each wounded devoid of it. Escape that way meant of her ambitious plans for clearing the of a miles and about trek outfits their he then sixty stripped horse; the home ranch. A certain conservfrom them, carried them to the devil of it was Pedro wouldnt know atism, the result, doubtless, of trainhorse of the recently killed man and which route they might elect to take. or good breeding, bade her reing sneaknow were Even on over they probably with a riata lashed them frain from enthusing over matters screened by the the saddle worn by that animal. He ing down-rive- r, in prospect Margaret also was on Pedro the and bank it; growth then retrieved Breezy Wades rifle, aware that she had come to terms in follow the them gazed long and interestedly into the realized he might with Ham Henley in the matter of face of his victim but could not rec- hope of catching them in an open that deed of trust. at them and area long destroying ognize him, searched him and found I suppose youll fix the three dollars and ten cents, also a range, but on the other hand if he fol- she suggested casually. place up, letter addressed, in a scrawling but lowed them one or both might pop Arrived in the ranch yard, Pedro unmistakably feminine handwriting out at him from behind a boulder or appeared and carried Mary from the to Randall H. Wall, Earp, Califor- mesquite bush and open on him with car to her room. While the nurse nia, which he appropriated, togeth- pistol fire. Thoughts of Carlotta and was putting her to bed Margaret er with the mans belt containing the twins made him conservative. went out into the kitchen to organize Carlotta saw him coming and the evening meal, but found that pistol and rifle cartridges and two Fronvery handsome opened the corral gate for him to Carlotta had already seen her duty caliber with lead the mules in. He saw the relief and was tier model forty-fiv- e preparing to do it. She h scroll in her eyes. "You seem to have informed Margaret she could cook barrels and work on barrel and frame. To the done well, my Pedro, she suggest- American style, by which she meant Heart almost any style except Aztec, and old ivory butts polished ebony grips ed, but Pedro only scowled. had been added in order that the of my heart, he replied, I have really regarded herself as superior weapon would not turn in the hand disgraced myself. I know now why in cooking ability to Ma Burdan, who while being cocked during rapid fire. my countrymen permitted Sam usually served three starches with On each ivory butt was a raised Houston, with a fraction of the forces every meaL When the culinary situpoker hand, in color three aces and of that mountebank, Santa Ana, to ation was reported to Mary the latter The declared she appeared to be the a pair of eights the dead mans wrest Texas from them. hand! They were, Pedro reasoned, wretched Mexicans cannot shoot! beneficiary of a conspiracy to make very old guns, probably once the But they have he swelled head and her happy; to which Margaret, in property of some gambler who had think they can, and Pedro beat his her dry way, replied she had often not been superstitious. He thought head with his knuckles to reduce observed that if one spoke kindly to I had mans work to a stray dog a wag of the tail resulthow Don Hamilton Henley would like the swelling. I accomplish? Mon- ed. You are very fortunate, did what do and souhis other with to them hang Mary, venirs, had it been his luck to col- key business, Carlotta mia, monkey she concluded, "because you do not business. Were it not for Juan and know you're the sweetest girl that' lect them himself! I would leave you in ever stepped off a Santa Fe train. Pedro stepped up on Breezy Victoriano such a fine woman And perhaps Im not doing shame that rehorse the and, leading Wades right by fool for a husband. a have should you in mentioning it. cently captured animal with his loot, Do not revile yourself, Pedrito, How do you like the place, Marreturned to headquarters, where he unsaddled both horses and turned Carlotta urged, and put her arms garet?" The dude quarters are very nice, them into the corral and locked the around him and kissed him. I must go to Prescott and see the but I agree with you the ranch saddles in the saddle shed. He carried all three rifles and the two gor- sheriff, Carlotta, so prepare food and buildings are unsightly. I suppose into his house, then I will take you and our sons youll be dudish enough to build a geous I have seen the swimming pool. emptied the rifle magazines of car- with me. After Of course and a big one, too. A tridges, ad justed, the recently killed sheriff we will attend the movies; in the summer. bandit's belt to his own slim waist, we will have dinner in Prescott, Great grief, child, are you selected the newest rifle to which visit Dona Maria and return late he attached a telescopic sight, tonight. ning to spend the summer here? kissed Carlotta and the twins, went So, in Don Leonardo's old sedan, (TO BE CONTINUED! THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary SuthIs lured to Arizona by the advertisements ot the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She Is met at the station by Len Henley, whose lather, Ham, has purchased the Burdan notes from the bank and feels that the ranch Is now his. Len takes Mary to Phoenix, enters the rodeo and rides Mad Hatter to a finish, winning three thousand dollars for Mary, who had bet Ham that Len could ride Hatter. Mary now buys the equity in Wagon Wheel, and Ham, learning she has not enough money, threatens foreclosure. Ma and Pa Burdan and Mary takes np on the ranch, where she kills a cattle rustler. erland ... Transferring patients from ambulances to the first hospital trains to be operated in France by the American army. The train runs from Lison to Cherbourg and is made up of box cars left behind by the Germans. Insert shows closeup of wounded being loaded on train. Fhoto by telephoto. The box cars were completely overhauled to provide all equipment necessary to handle the wounded while they were being transferred to base hospital at Cherbourg. During the last war the U. S. army operated several base hospitals In France. Three Generations and a Family m safe-keepi- n. Not all of the refugees have left France. This grandmother, mother and children took to the woods as war rolled their way. They had been without food for days when found by Ameriean troops. r, Among the thousands of refugees who landed at noboken, N. J., to spend the wars duration In a canip in the U. S. was the family of Jacob Dresdner, shown after coming ashore. The family is composed of Jacob and his wife and their nine children, from Hungary. With the rest of the lucky thousand permitted entry under the Presidents plan, they will be kept in Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y., until the end of the war at which time they will be returned to their own countries. Insert shows how many of the refugees when forced to flee their homes tried to carry a few valuables with them. Yanks Pass Through Periers er The Anxious Seat ft. f tt semi-barre- six-inc- gold-inlai- I .. Yank column passes through the French town of Periers on their drive toward Paris and Berlin. The American tanks are shown as they pass through the ruins of this old French city, which was added to the list of captured towns. As was true in other French cities, the GIs were received with open arms by the citizens of Periers. Sub Blasted by Depth Charges d Life-sav- , , . Scite'.S-v- Seated on the radiator of a jeep, this German sniper In civiliai clothes is being driven to Americas headquarters after his capture neat St. Saveur Lendelin. He looks a trifle worried and well he might. U-Bo- Young Chiel at tfV i ft-- W 'J i Uf I " ;W.. , tfV. I- r - jea f'i ' t 'a fr I ' 1 t f' t ' '3 I -- : i Hi 4 'V ! s j v--i ' v I ; , ' , r ' J,: A J i $ fi '1U Panicky Nazis pour out of the conning tower to the deck of a submarine blasted to the surface by depth charges planted by V. S. coast guard and navy destroyer escorts somewhere in the Atlantic. A few minutes later the crippled plunged to the bottom of the sea. Twelve Nazis were picked up and became prisoners of war. at i A commander of a was captured after his sunk by destroyer escort in the Atlantic. lie was a former Californian, Nazi ship was at |